01:730:329 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jerry Fodor, Turing Machine, Intentionality
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An individual that possesses mentality is not just an object in the world, but is also the subject of experiences. Reni descartes argued that the exterior world can all be imagined by the mind of oneself, however, the person itself cannot be a figment of someone"s imagination because they cannot imagine their own existence without actually existing. If one can be certain that they exist even when doubting that their body exists, then one is conceiving themselves to be separate from their body (substance dualism) The author believes that identity theory cannot provide an account of the connection between particular kinds of brain states and the qualitative mental states with which they are correlated. Behaviorism is the theory that"s more about what mind isn"t. Analytical functionalism - one could specify mental states in non-mental terms by abstracting them from the mentalistic generalizations and explanations that abound in ordinary life. Intentionality - the relation between one thing"s being about another.